Protect the river

Cambridge Times

In its next chapter of “Clearing up Conservative myths” will the Cambridge Times ask Cambridge MP Gary Goodyear about the action his government has undertaken to ensure that reversal of the oil flow in pipeline No. 9 will not threaten the Grand River with future leakage?

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Simply replacing river crossings with new, thicker-walled pipe would do the trick.

When it comes to Canada’s most uncommunicative government ever, I do not expect to hear something from the MP that has not been approved by the PMO.

I ask the question with some trepidation in face of the danger that this government member will label me one of “a whole group of people trying to make sure people don’t understand (changes) the way they're supposed to be...”. Or something.

Changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act in one of two omnibus bills have, in fact, reduced the area of the Grand River protected under the act.

The fact that this was done just as Enbridge applies to pump something from the west through that pipe, instead of the light crude it has carried for decades, is troubling.

Not to sow confusion in this matter, but those full-page, pastoral views in Enbridge ads are not re-assuring in the aftermath of their Kalamazoo River, Mich. spill.